Robert Matas

Lori Shenher, the first Vancouver cop to focus on Robert Pickton as a serial killer, thought about writing a book when she feared she would become a scapegoat for the failure of police to stop the barbaric murders. However, the families of Pickton’s victims criticized her for signing a book contract. Some felt Shenher had betrayed their…

Serial killer Robert William Pickton, a pig farmer who butchered women as if they were animals, has grabbed headlines across the country for almost a decade. We have learned more than many want to know about this wretched man and his depraved killings. But we still do not have a final reckoning. The questions remain: Who did he…

Many people across the country were upset with media reports earlier this year of the brutal murders of drug-dependent women who sell sex from street corners in Vancouver’s skid row. They did not want to read the graphic accounts of the horrific murders. They did not want to hear about the testimony in court suggesting that women’s bodies were butchered and disposed of as if they were…